Positive Adult Personality Development Adjustment and/or Growth?

By U. Staudinger, U. Kunzmann. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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Focus on opportunities as a mediator of the relationship between business owners' age and venture growth (2012, unknown): “…to successful aging because it helps older individuals to obtain, protect, and replenish other important personal resources such as competencies and social networks (Hobfoll and Wells, 1998; Keyes, 2007; Knight et al., 2006; Lazarus and Delongis, 1983; Staudinger and Kunzmann, 2005; Warr, 1997).”
Moving European research on work and ageing forward: Overview and agenda (2010, unknown): “Personality, in this context, is often thought of as stable, although recent studies show that considerable development and change does seem to take place in people’s personalities (e.g., Staudinger & Kunzmann, 2004).”
Post–traumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change: Evidence, Controversies and Future Directions (2014, background): “…by informants), but it is unclear whether increases in more humanistic constructs such as insight and integrity that often characterize growth (Staudinger & Kunzmann, 2005) can be accurately perceived even by close informants, especially if informants rate low on those traits.4 These are…”
The longitudinal development of employee well-being: a systematic review (2016, background): “While development can occur in an upward or downward direction, most life-span theories emphasize positive change in personality and socio-emotional development, which occurs via maturation and growth (Charles & Carstensen, 2009; Isaacowitz & Blanchard-Fields, 2012; Staudinger & Kunzmann, 2005).”
Self-Reported Wisdom and Happiness: An Empirical Investigation (2011, unknown): “One issue in the debate is whether growing wiser is more desirable than being happy and whether the attainment of wisdom might be accompanied by distress (Staudinger and Glu¨ck 2011; Staudinger and Kunzmann 2005).”
The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns (2020, background): “In fact, the most adaptive forms of emotion regulation might entail efforts to maintain previous levels of positive affect in the wake of adversity by shutting down self-reflective processes that could jeopardize happiness, but otherwise promote growth (Staudinger & Kunzmann, 2005).”
What Drives Adult Personality Development? A Comparison of Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence (2014, background): “This means that personality development is not necessarily positive change due to functional adjustment, growth or maturation (for definitions, see Staudinger & Kunzmann, 2005).”
Developmental Tasks as a Framework to Study Personality Development in Adulthood and Old Age (2014, background): “It has been suggested that normative changes in personality prepare people for the completion of developmental tasks and vice versa (e.g. Staudinger & Kunzmann, 2005).”